Half a month later.

Today is the thirtieth and final day for the Northern Continent League participants to enter the Land of Fast. At nine o'clock in the evening, the warriors in each area began to pack up and leave the area in an orderly manner. The first stage, which lasted for a whole month, is about to come to an end, and tomorrow, after the results of the Northern Continent League will conduct a metaphysical assessment of each contestant, the first stage will be completely over, and the second stage will officially begin.

As stated in the rules, in the first stage, there will be no elimination, in other words, no contestant will be eliminated regardless of whether he or she has learned the chosen metatechnique, and if the contestant has mastered the chosen metatechnique, there will be a reward.

The assessment is only for the mystical skills, and as for the secret skills, there is no assessment, because this is to take into account that the secret skills, especially some rigid secret skills, are easy to damage the body, and the second stage is approaching, and the contestants must maintain their own good condition, so the secret skills are no longer assessed.

At 10 p.m., the contestants began to leave the area in an orderly manner. When leaving the fast area, it is much slower than entering the fast area, because the people inside always feel that the people outside are too slow, and they always have to stop and wait for the people in front of them to take a few steps to keep up.

Le Qi and the others, after waiting in line for a while, came out leisurely, and after some waiting, waiting for all the people, they passed through the teleportation array and returned to the ground, and carefully observed the surroundings, which was the place where they came.

At the same time, the sky outside was already pitch black, covered with dark clouds, and even the curved crescent moon was tightly covered, only a corner of the pale yellow outline could be vaguely revealed.

Immediately, after the envoy explained, Le Qi and the others also left this place and returned to their residences. Le Qiyan had no intention of following the pace of the team, and staggered back to the pavilion of the Black Forest Empire......

Perhaps because of the thirty days of hard work, Le Qi, who returned to the room, already felt a little tired, hurriedly took a hot bath, so relaxed, he already felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, and he blinked his sleepy eyes for a while, and before he knew it, he fell asleep deeply, and within half a moment, there were bursts of even breathing in the room.

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At the end of the Far East, it gradually became white, like the white belly of the fish, gradually rising. Soon, between the whitening, it was gradually dyed with a layer of red and orange light, like a wave of crimson waves, and the red egg that had not been peeled was washed up, and the sky was so bright.

The holy city of the Ice and Snow Palace has also become lively, with long streets and alleys of all sizes and densely packed shops, all of which have opened their doors, revealing a dazzling array of goods, and opened their doors to do business. On the streets, all kinds of mysterious beasts pulled vehicles to and fro. Where there are people, there is noise, and therefore, Syracuse is alive again.

In the inner city palace of the Holy City, a little-known mysterious area, it is also rare to come alive.

This is an area buried deep in the ground, the volume of the area is not too large, only the length and width are not more than a kilometer, but the top is surprisingly high, almost more than a kilometer. I don't know if it's because there is no daylight, it's a little dark here, but there is no lantern lit, and the only light source is a tree in the center of the area, a towering tree.

The towering trees are thousands of meters high, reaching the top of the cave, and the sturdy roots, like countless curved and circling earth dragons, penetrate deep into the bottom of this space, and I don't know where they have reached. The trunk of the big tree, and even all the branches, without exception, are twisted and turned, strange to the extreme, the trunk is full of gray-brown like withered bark like a flaky bark about to fall off, coupled with the rare withered yellow leaves on the branches, giving people the feeling that this is a happy old tree, which may die at any time.

Some people with insight can see that this is an extremely large gray tree, which is what people say, the ghost tree. The only difference is that its trunk and foliage are flickering with a faint yellow fluorescence, which flickers on and off, very rhythmically, as if it were breathing.

It is not easy for an ordinary ghost tree to be tens of meters high, it has lived for at least hundreds of thousands of years, and the ghost tree that is regarded as a treasure by the royal family of the Black Forest is only about twenty meters high, and it is already an old tree that is nearly eight hundred years old.

It is said that only ghost trees that are 10,000 or even tens of thousands of years old can reach a height of 100 meters, and such rare treasure trees are occupied by major forces, and are closely protected as treasures of the town clan and imperial treasures.

A 100-meter ghost tree is still rare in the world, if outsiders see this ghost tree up to 1,000 meters high, I don't know how shocking it will be, how many tens of thousands of years, how many 100,000 years, how many millions of years to have such a huge size! The sap of the 10,000-year-old ghost tree has a powerful effect on nourishing the soul, so how powerful is the sap of this ghost tree?!

At this moment, the teleportation array in the area suddenly flashed into a bright light, and three old men in plain clothes were teleported to the area. The three old men all looked like old dragon bells, with long gray sparse hair, and a few traces of ice blue could still be found, undoubtedly, these were the three old men of the ice clan.

Seeing the three old men in the teleportation array, the five younger old men who were originally among them all walked up quickly and bowed deeply respectfully.

One of the five people was the first to speak: "Yang Yu has seen three ancestors. "The attitude was very respectful.

Subsequently, the other four people also spoke: "Han Qian (Kun Yu, Ye Bin, Ying Candle) has seen three ancestors. ”

These five names, with an ice character added to the front, don't know how many people's guts will be scared! Those are all powerful figures back then, Bing Delirium, maybe this name, the younger generation no longer knows much, however, as long as he mentions his Sun Bingxun, his great-grandson Bing Lingyun, everyone will understand that he is the last three Ice and Snow Palace Sect Master Bing Delirium! And the other four people are also the old-timers in the major branches of the Ice Clan, without exception, these people have already been saints a hundred years ago!

However, here, they wanted to respectfully call the three old men an ancestor! It can be seen what the identities of these three old men were.

There is a rule in the Ice Palace that after the Sect Master crosses over to the Holy Realm, he will give up the position of the Sect Master and be succeeded by the next Sect Master. Although, externally, the position of the suzerain of the Ice Palace is supreme, handling the affairs of the Ice and Snow Palace.

However, in fact, some matters related to the development and survival of the Ice Palace are decided by the Holy Court. In other words, the real decision-maker of the Ice Palace is not the Sect Master, but the Holy Courtyard, which is composed of Holy Beings.

And these three ancestors are the top of the Holy Courtyard, and it can be said that they are the real authority of the Ice Palace.

It's just that usually, these ancestors have long been out of the world, even if it is a meeting of the Holy Academy, or even an important meeting once in a few decades, several ancestors may not participate, but are in retreat and cultivation. For them, mundane things are no longer concerned, and only the ethereal divine realm is the only goal they are chasing.

However, today, they gathered here, and when they saw the expressions of a few people, they were still a little anxious, not just what kind of thing could make these three show such a posture.

I saw a few ancestors, but did not speak, but flicked their sleeves, signaled the five people to get out of the way, Bing Yang and the others understood, and made way for the three ancestors, and then, following the steps of the ancestors, slowly walked to the trunk of the heavenly ghost tree.

Immediately, I saw the three ancestors, facing the trunk of the ghost tree, lifting their robes, and with a plop, they actually knelt down! The attitude of the three ancestors was extremely sincere, and they bowed down three times, and then slowly stood up.

If this scene were seen by others, they would definitely break out in a cold sweat, and the real person of the Ice and Snow Palace, one of the five super forces in the Xuanxu Continent, would actually bow down to a ghost tree! You must know that with the identity and strength of the three ancestors, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are above hundreds of millions of people and no one is below! However, why would they make such a great gift to a ghost tree? Even if this is a ghost tree that has lived for an unknown number of years.

However, without allowing much thought, the three ancestors said respectfully in an old voice: "The three descendants of the Ice Clan, meet the seniors of Cangmu!"

However, the "senior Cangmu", the big tree in the sky, did not make any sound of reply, as if it was just an ordinary old tree.

The three ancestors, who did not receive an answer, were still respectful, bowed deeply, and turned around. In fact, they are not surprised by this, or rather, although they have lived for hundreds of years, they have never heard a word from Cangmu's predecessors, not only them, in 10,000 years, no one has ever heard Cangmu's predecessors say a word.

But even so, no one dares to disrespect this ghost tree, why is this so? Because this comes from a story, a fragment of the story of the guardians of the sacred tree who have not only passed it on by word of mouth, but also deeply imprinted in the soul with the method of the soul.

This story starts from 60,000 years ago, when the Ice Palace was established.

Sixty thousand years ago, the Ice Clan was not the overlord of the Northern Continent, but only a small second-rate empire, just like today's Black Forest Empire, its strength was far inferior to the top ten first-class empires at that time, so it had to huddle in the barren land of the extreme north of the Northern Continent, which is where the Ice Palace is located now, and even the territory has not changed. It's just that at that time, the territory of the Ice and Snow Palace was really only those, and to the north, they didn't dare to go beyond half a step, because it was the elixir depot and hunting ground of the major empires, and other small empires were not allowed to be contaminated.

In that era, the life of the Ice Clan was very difficult, not only was there a lack of resources and was oppressed by others, but more importantly, at that time, between heaven and earth, the ice attribute Xuan Qi could be described as extremely thin, and the talent of the Ice Clan could be said to be the bottom existence of the human race.

Many people, even the people of the Ice Clan themselves, feel that the Ice Clan's life is short, and if it continues like this, it will either be destroyed or annexed, and a race with no talent will not be able to escape the fate of disappearing in the long river of history.